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Re: good vi editor for the mac

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 23:07
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In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
>In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>>
>>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
>
>No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
>easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
>in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

Emacs yes, vi no.  And if you want a mainframe editor, try Xedit...
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
Message-ID: <1992Sep05.230728.19530@eng.umd.edu>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 23:07:28 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
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